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Boston Globe - Entertainment

Nicholas Brendon, beloved sidekick on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' dies at 54 - Nicholas Brendon, an actor who played the lovable, clownish sidekick on the hit television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," has died. He was 54.

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BSO declines to renew Andris Nelsons' contract

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DANCE REVIEW - Boston Ballet has yet another winner with 'The Dream' It's one you could watch every night.

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Horror novel 'Shy Girl' pulled over suspected AI use -- Hachette Book Group, one of the largest publishers in the United States, pulled a forthcoming horror novel Thursday in a decision that followed widespread allegations online that the author relied heavily on artificial intelligence to write the book.

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Jane Lapotaire, British actress who won a Tony for 'Piaf,' dies at 81 -- An intense performer, she moved deftly between classical and contemporary roles and returned to the stage after suffering a devastating cerebral aneurysm.

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Winter Arts Guide - 50 fun things to do in and around Boston this winter - Whether you're a fan of Monet or the Dropkick Murphys, our Winter Arts Guide has something for you.

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Odie Henderson: Rachel McAdams sends for help, plus more winter movies

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Chris Vognar: 10 new and returning shows to watch this winter

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Read more stories from our Winter Arts Guide

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'The Comeback' review: Valerie Cherish vs. the machine -- HBO's showbiz satire "The Comeback" has a way of showing up, like a comet that portends woe, at moments of industrywide upheaval, angst and cataclysm.

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'The Bachelorette' took a risk on Taylor Frankie Paul. It backfired. -- Unlike the women who led the show's previous 21 seasons, Paul had no history with ABC's "Bachelor" franchise, among the longest running in reality television.

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BTS is back. But the K-Pop landscape has changed. -- Did BTS' absence simply leave a vacuum that only the megawatt group could fill? And can it pick up right where it left off?

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Calvin Tomkins, who narrated the rise of contemporary art, dies at 100 -- His elegant and searching profiles for The New Yorker created an enduring portrait gallery of the prime movers in modern art from the 1960s onward.

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MARK SHANAHAN - 'It's a game changer.' Zach Bryan buys Kerouac's 'On the Road' scroll for $12M, with plan to display it in Lowell. With the scroll as a centerpiece, there's little doubt that a Jack Kerouac Center in Lowell would attract visitors. "People will come from around the world."

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Coolidge Corner Theatre workers vote to authorize strike as contract negotiations deadlocked, union says -- The vote doesn't mean the workers at the Brookline cinema will immediately strike.

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A new PBS doc explores how politicians use race to make Americans 'White with Fear' -- Steve Bannon, Hillary Clinton, and more weigh in on the tactic of using race-based fear to get votes.

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'EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert' is a hunka hunka Luhrmann love -- Director Baz Luhrmann delivers a music-filled documentary even an Elvis hater can enjoy.

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'Deadwood' delivered one of the best #!@$* first episodes of all time

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Good guys wore black: A tribute to Chuck Norris

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Electronic music, dance, opera, martial arts: FKA twigs says 'this is just my makeup'

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Dropkick Murphys to perform at No Kings rally in Boston

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Beyond 'Centerfield': The ultimate playlist for baseball lovers

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Chuck Norris, Hollywood action star, has died at 86

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Blackface isn't dead. It isn't even past.

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A Klimt tree blooms in the Harvard Art Museums

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Inside the BSO power struggle that led to Andris Nelsons' fall

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'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man,' 'SNL UK,' plus more new movies and TV to stream this weekend

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ABC cancels 'Bachelorette' season with Taylor Frankie Paul, citing 2023 video

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A cause worth fighting for, and singing about, in 'Suffs'

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Noah Kahan announces release date for his documentary, and more arts news

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'André Is an Idiot' is a hilarious and heartbreaking plea for you to get a colonoscopy

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50 years ago, 'Bugsy Malone' put a group of kids in an old-school gangster movie. Does it stand the test of time?

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Ex-cons seek salvation through sandwiches in Lynn Nottage's 'Clyde's'

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Buildings in darkness, lit from within: An exhibit called 'Sanctuary' is a haunting embodiment of current fears, and of hope

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